Coxheath Preschool

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The management team accurately evaluates the nursery. Staff include the views of parents and children to help identify areas for further improvement. For example, the outdoor play environment has been enhanced to extend opportunities for children to explore natural materials.

• Staff enhance children's communication and language skills effectively. For example, they clearly emphasise key words. Staff successfully adapt their interactions to help children to develop good understanding and speaking skills.

• Partnerships with parents are strong. Staff use various ways to engage and involve parents effectively in their children's learning. Parents v...alue the good-quality care that staff provide.

• Relationships between staff are strong, as well as those formed with the children. They provide good role models for the children and influence their good and considerate behaviour towards one another. Staff are sensitive, stimulating and responsive to children's needs.

• All children make good progress in their learning from their starting points. • Opportunities for older children to explore technology are not consistently available, to help them build on their interests and awareness of how things work. • Although the manager monitors individual children's progress well, this is not as effective in tracking different groups of children, to identify trends and close any gaps in learning more precisely.